wh5 = who, what, where, when and why. The five basic questions that are the structure of any story. Explored in "Who says what, where, when and and Why: Context in Conversation." An introduction to Sociolinguistics through Conversation Analysis. wh5 is the blogsite of the book published 2008 by Nanundo-Phoenix, Tokyo.

Friday, November 4, 2016

Can a Clown Candidate Project Presidential Poise?

Bill
and George on Trump’s latest mayhem…

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George: Terminally ill people
“stay alive long enough to vote for me”. And talking to himself, "We're
going to be nice and cool, nice and cool, stay on point, Donald, stay on
point," during a rally. "No sidetracks Donald, nice and easy."

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Bill: This is a candidate who
is presidential material? One who asks dying people to forget their suffering and go vote just to gratify his ego? One whose inner speech comes out in muttered public
ramblings?

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George: So what is “being
presidential” all about? You had it. I had it. This clown doesn’t.

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Bill: Calmness over becoming
hysterical. Politeness over being insulting. Subtle but not simplistic. Witty,
not clownish.

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__________

Voice-over

It is a time to be fearful
when swathes of the U.S. population vote not for someone fit for the job of
president but who triggers their hate.

As John Kerry says, it’s
“downright embarrassing” to have a presidential candidate who doesn’t even
acknowledge climate change and that the presidential contest has been “a humiliating
time for America”.Barack Obama goes further and
says the “fate of the world” is at risk if Trump takes over.